Oh the irony, the delicious sweet irony

So now, MoveOn.org, the progressive group that formed during the Clinton impeachment trials to encourage congress to just "move on" to the work of the people, then to censure and move on (and which I've been a member of from very early on, as a disclaimer) has now officially endorsed Barack Obama for president. I love the irony, an organization specifically started to oppose the treatment Bill Clinton was receiving by our then-Republican-majority congress, is now overwhelmingly endorsing Obama. In order to endorse either candidate, they required a 2/3rds majority of their members who voted to support one candidate over the other. Barack got more than 70% of the vote.

Here's his response (which came in so quickly that they got it before they finished writing up their announcement to the membership, making me guess that he was hoping/anticipating the endorsement and had it pre-written):
"In just a few years, the members of MoveOn have once again demonstrated that real change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up. From their principled opposition to the Iraq war—a war I also opposed from the start—to their strong support for a number of progressive causes, MoveOn shows what Americans can achieve when we come together in a grassroots movement for change. I thank them for their support and look forward to working with their members in the weeks and months ahead."


GObama GObama GO!